Author Archives: Snake

I forgot how much a pain in the ass it was to start over with a new format, but I went ahead with it anyways. I believe that being in the woods for a couple days washed away some of my tech knowledge, because I made a little mistake and nearly a huge one. The little mistake was formatting the previous 5.1GB WD drive before taking it out (forgot to copy my favorites…damnit!) and the close call was leaving the 4.3GB Maxtor slave hooked up while partitioning and whatnot. I nearly erased all my 1.7GB of backup data!
Currently, I’m downloading IE 6 and then will queue Half-Life 1107 full patch and Paint Shop Pro 7. I would have had all the patches and editing applications, but my backup CD-RW got seriously corrupt (never again am I buying a Creative burner). I should have AIM and MSN installed later tomorrow.
I haven’t even gotten to really bench this new thing, either. All I have is the logged startup time from UT. It used to be about 60 seconds…but check this out:

I don’t know about Infiltration, yet…I can’t get it to run, probably cause I’ve got v428 instead of v436 (again, another patch that got corrupted). I wanna get HDTach again tomorrow and compare it with the scores I got 3 days ago. I’ll also have a few DCam pics, but not until I get PSP.

Also, I saved a screenshot from a few days ago of my MBM systray temperature display. It got suprisingly low; and I believe that it was the lowest I’ve ever recorded the North Bridge at and in summer, too! Take a look.

I can’t get enough of that Lost World ][ map in Quake3. Luckily, I did have the 1.29g patch locally.

Happy Partitions!

I got the dish on this fan stuff over at The ghEtTO Page. Check it, biatch!

Not only is Loog getting a hardware upgrade, but I am as well. I purchased a Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM hard drive (which is from the DiamondMax 60 Plus line) from my favorite retailer, Comp-u-Plus. I also got a Logitech serial mouse for some split-screen Doom Legacy…sweetness. It’s not even my birthday, though, so I still may be looking at a new Plextor 12x10x32 CDRW soon (in which case there will be another hardware execution). Que’s hoping for a Digital Camera for his birthday in November. Meanwhile, there have been talks of a Motherboard/CPU/RAM upgrade for the Gandalf formerly known as Gandalf the Cock. Tis the season for new hardware, apparently.

I emailed Speedbit (guys that make Download Accelerator Plus) about a problem that has occured to me twice, where a download will get to 100% and not build the output. This is usually followed by a time-out and if the file is stopped and resumed it’s back to 0%. If this has happened to you, then it’s likely to happen again. In which case, you should heed the advice given:

If it happens you may try the following procedure:
Please right click the file and choose properties, then move to the connection page. Click each one of the “Simultaneous connections” and write down all the connection’s “Temp file” for this file. Copy those .TMP files from their original location to a different directory (folder). Then, re-download the file from the beginning (you will have to delete it from DAP first). Just after it starts to to download the file, stop the download, then right click on the file again and choose properties, move to the connection page, click each one of the “Simultaneous connections” and write down all the connection’s “Temp file” for this file. Now, rename the old .TMP files into the new ones that DAP has created and copy them back to their original location, you will be asked weather you whish to overwrite the .TMP files that already exist in that location, please confirm. Now, resume the file again, this should create the file correctly.

Regards,
SpeedBit Support.

They were suprisingly prompt in replying. I hope this helps someone in the future, including me.

Now for a little bit of gHETto-ness, the fan switches. While this case mod wasn’t totally successful, it does work to satisfaction. I can switch the super-loud 80mm fan off and on at appropriate times. Twas a bitch soldering with an ancient “Solder Sucker” to get the switch connections to hold. It was also a bitch making my gHetTO wire twist-ties, which consist of electrical tape and an inch of garbage twist-ties. Well, here’s a pic that shows it pretty well. I will have a full gheTTO write-up on this later.

There’s also a new version of Motherboard Monitor out, 5.09. Pick it up at TweakFiles.com

Yes…it has arrived. I’m a little late finding out, but nevertheless, pick it up bitches. There’s 170MB worth of stuff to get, so you’d better set it up for overnight, modem people.

Infiltration Downloads

I’ve got some of my “How to make good demos/How we rate demos” Column up. I’d suggest that all the reviewers read the bottom part.

http://www.s–l.com/Columns/2001/demos

And the visitor of the week is…I dunno, I fucking forgot. Oh well, get the FreeSpace 2 demo!